Below is a listing of the organizations that we currently have on our committee roster. Our Committee members have a minimum of two organizations to work with. Their charge is to make the organization aware of ALSC's activities and goals, as well as to involve themselves in the activities of their assigned liaison organizations. Below you will find links to organizations serving children and youth and perhaps find a local chapter that can assist you in your work with children in your area. Scroll down to the bottom of the list to see the criteria for liaison relationships with ALSC.

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This is a listing of the national organizations that ALSC maintains a cordial relationship, with links to the organizations' websites. Each LNOSCY committee member is assigned an average of two organizations to contact throughout the year. Committee members are charged with making their assigned organizations aware of ALSC activities and goals and to involve themselves with their assigned organizations whenever action is requested.

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We encourage individual librarians contact their local chapter in order to form partnerships and collaborations at the local level.

:<li>Partnership on Local Level, Best Practice. The local children's Museum (a reciprocal member of ACM), gives the public library free children's passes to the museum as a summer reading reward. SBange</li>

:<li>Partnership on Local Level, Best Practice. Occasionally, the local Even Start program asked me to visit the children to do a storytime or puppet show. Also, they asked me to give a presentation to mothers on the value of the public library to their children. SBange</li>

:<li>Partnership on Local Level, Best Practice. One of the local GS troops called me, asking for guidance to do their Bookmaker Badge. I met with the girls for a 2 hour workshop, where we talked about books and made our own hand-sewn books. SBange</li>

:<li>Partnership on Local Level, Best Practice. When working in an inner-city branch library, I contacted the county agent responsible for nutrition. We sat down and worked out a series of programs that I would execute at the branch. I selected healthy food recipes, one per month for a school year, for the kids to prepare and eat after school. She provided the recipes and supplies to prepare this "healthy snack" each month. It was one of my best-attended series of kids' programs! And the icing on the cake? She delivered everything I needed for the program to the branch each month! SBange</li>

<li> [http://www.naeyc.org National Association for the Education of Young Children]</li>

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<li> National Science Teachers Association</li>

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:<li>Partnership on Local Level, Best Practice. I began my partnership with by connecting with one of the staff members of the local office of NAEYC. We made arrangements for Cindy to come to my branch library during preschool storytime to present a series of programs to parents for six weeks. Each week she focused on a different parenting issue; she met with the parents in the children's area of the library, while I entertained their kiddos in the meeting room. This series was so well received, I booked her to do a 2nd series. SBange</li>

:<li>Partnership on Local Level, Best Practice. I was organizing a workshop for librarians and contacted my local PBS station. The Director of Marketing came to the workshop and did a splendid presentation of programming that our local PBS station has produced. She pointed out that each PBS station produces shows, as well as runs national programming. Best deal? Local programming is often found online streaming and custom-made for your community! SBange</li>

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<li> Zero to Three</li>

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<li> [http://www.rif.org Reading Is Fundamental]</li>

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<li> [http://www.salvationarmyusa.org The Salvation Army]</li>

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<li> [http://www.ponyclub.org United States Pony Club]</li>

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<li> [http://www.ymca.net YMCA]</li>

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:<li>Partnership on Local Level, Best Practice. The local YMCA used to contact us twice a year: once to do spooky storytelling for their annual Halloween event and once to have a booth at their annual community fair (also represented were agencies like the fire department, police, etc.) Good visibility for us! SBange</li>

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<li> [http://www.ywca.org YWCA]</li>

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<li> [http://www.zerotothree.org Zero to Three]</li>

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Contents

Function Statement

To explore, recommend, initiate and implement ways of working with organizations that serve children or work for their benefit; to promote libraries with reading to those organizations; to promote awareness of these organizations activities, services and informational materials to ALSC members.

History

Carolyn Field, the first Chair of the Liaison with National Organizations Serving the Child, convened the first meeting in Kansas City, MO in 1968. In 1983, the liaison committees of ALSC and YALSA agreed to beeing meeting and working cooperatively. This was significant step toward strengthening our national liaisons and creating an awareness in librarians of not only the existence of these liaisons, but the impact they have on developing coordinated services for children and youth.

In 1996 the ALSC liaison committee was completely reorganized. Presently, each ALSC liaison explores possibilities for and develops liaison relationships with national organizations. The liaison gathers information from contacts and transmits the information to the ALSC LNOSCY Committee through semi annual report forms. The ALSC LNOSCY Committee and the liaison disseminate the information to the larger membership through the ALSC Newsletter , Children & Libraries (CAL) Conference programs and displays and the ALSC listserv.

The development of the liaison relationships can go very quickly or it may take many years of nourishment to flower into a working liaison relationship. Each relationship is different. Communication with the Committee Co-chairs is necessary in either extreme.

Organizations

This is a listing of the national organizations that ALSC maintains a cordial relationship, with links to the organizations' websites. Each LNOSCY committee member is assigned an average of two organizations to contact throughout the year. Committee members are charged with making their assigned organizations aware of ALSC activities and goals and to involve themselves with their assigned organizations whenever action is requested.

We encourage individual librarians contact their local chapter in order to form partnerships and collaborations at the local level.

Partnership on Local Level, Best Practice. Occasionally, the local Even Start program asked me to visit the children to do a storytime or puppet show. Also, they asked me to give a presentation to mothers on the value of the public library to their children. SBange

Partnership on Local Level, Best Practice. One of the local GS troops called me, asking for guidance to do their Bookmaker Badge. I met with the girls for a 2 hour workshop, where we talked about books and made our own hand-sewn books. SBange

Partnership on Local Level, Best Practice. When working in an inner-city branch library, I contacted the county agent responsible for nutrition. We sat down and worked out a series of programs that I would execute at the branch. I selected healthy food recipes, one per month for a school year, for the kids to prepare and eat after school. She provided the recipes and supplies to prepare this "healthy snack" each month. It was one of my best-attended series of kids' programs! And the icing on the cake? She delivered everything I needed for the program to the branch each month! SBange

Partnership on Local Level, Best Practice. I began my partnership with by connecting with one of the staff members of the local office of NAEYC. We made arrangements for Cindy to come to my branch library during preschool storytime to present a series of programs to parents for six weeks. Each week she focused on a different parenting issue; she met with the parents in the children's area of the library, while I entertained their kiddos in the meeting room. This series was so well received, I booked her to do a 2nd series. SBange

Partnership on Local Level, Best Practice. I was organizing a workshop for librarians and contacted my local PBS station. The Director of Marketing came to the workshop and did a splendid presentation of programming that our local PBS station has produced. She pointed out that each PBS station produces shows, as well as runs national programming. Best deal? Local programming is often found online streaming and custom-made for your community! SBange

Partnership on Local Level, Best Practice. The local YMCA used to contact us twice a year: once to do spooky storytelling for their annual Halloween event and once to have a booth at their annual community fair (also represented were agencies like the fire department, police, etc.) Good visibility for us! SBange